I have heard that Manchester City Council, in their "wisdom", want to remove the wonderful street art on New Wakefield Street. It enlivens the arches and businesses opposite a good range of bars and good architecture. It has even engendered the annual Eurocultured festival, which is held here each June.
Hopefully love, and art, will win this unnecessary battle and the council can concentrate on issues that actually matter to city residents. Three issues that immediately spring to my mind are the need to create some new green spaces, combat and reduce car pollution and do something about cleaning the cities' streets which are sadly paved with chewing-gum, cigarette ends and fast food/junk food debris...
Linked to Monday Murals at the Oakland Daily Photo blog.
Street art has to be preserved and renewed!
ReplyDeleteyup, going through the same council decisions here, too. really, who is the least qualified to determine what is art than a city council?!
ReplyDeleteHow sad it would be if the council made the decision to remove street art! I can understand if the buildings are being defaced - but for many of them, the art is a great improvement! This is a very nicely done!
ReplyDeleteNice piece of street art unlike much of the grafitti that I my opion drags down our town and cities.
ReplyDeleteI by chance saw the powerwashing team having a go at the pavement on Briggate here in Leeds, when I asked them about the gum they said they could remove but were told not to. I think that that answer was because it would take longer. Personally I would make gum chewers lick it up off the pavement, same with doggy doo though in that case it would be the owner not the dog.
I've never understood how the council think it's their duty to interfere like this. Surely those gates belong to someone?!
ReplyDeleteHey, that's life. Ya gotta take the good with the bad.
ReplyDeleteThankfully you don't have to "take" anything, you can speak out, and if enough of you do they'll see the error of their ways. Councils are like that, they listen to noise! This mural I like.
ReplyDeleteLove it!
ReplyDeleteAh yes, concentrate on the mundane and don't tackle the real problems, politicians are the same the world over. She is absolutely gorgeous, maybe an icon to rally the troops against the silly council ideas.
ReplyDeleteOh I do hope they save this one Chrissy, love SHOULD always win! Street littering is such a problem everywhere..I just don't get the mentality of treating the streets like a dustbin when there is usually a dustbin close by, it's one of my pet hates!
ReplyDeleteAnother wonderful mural! I also hope love and art will win in the end (I like to think they always do, even if it takes a while :)
ReplyDeleteAs long as the owners agree, then I don't see why art shouldn't win...
ReplyDeleteThis is what I call art.
ReplyDeleteGreetings,
Filip
I was down that neck of the woods this morning - I notice the "Save our Street Art" posters and took a photo of the entrance to the "Thirsty Scholar" - I thought it was just graffiti but discover that there really is a bar in the arches. I'll have to post the photo on my other blog next week - I'd been looking at the sculptures around Granby Row and also discovered a burnt out college on Charles Street so by time I got to Oxford Road was ready to be heading home.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing. Love it. Please have a good Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThat would be sad! It's a beautiful addition to any street. I hope it gets to stay!
ReplyDeleteMarvelous!
ReplyDeleteLove the mural. It is so colorful and has such an optimistic message.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a commissioned, or at least permitted, piece. Don't know about the rest of New Wakefield Street. I'd be curious about the number of complaints the council got to prompt their involvement in street art. My guess is very few. Any public outcry on behalf of the art? Irony seems to rule these days, and the controversy about street art that extols Love only adds to that impression. Thanks, Crissy, for contributing to Monday Mural.
ReplyDeleteThis is seriously a WTF situation. Not only does this appear to be private property, and hence the concern of only the owner, I couldn't agree more with you that there are more grave issues for the LGU to tackle. What are they thinking? This image on the garage door is wonderful.
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